Participation of over 900 students from close to 200 schools across the nation
Delhi Public School R.K. Puram hosted the most awaited annual event, Digex 2021. The digital excellence society or DIGEX served as a medium of self-expression for aspiring photographers. Students from 200 schools across the nation, participated to showcase and compete for their talent in fields such as filmmaking, photo manipulation, photography, and more. Garnering participation of over 900 students the annual Digex fest was hosted virtually due to the restrictions by the corona pandemic.
The event and the members of the club received unwavering and constant support from the Principal, Ms Padma Srinivasan. She wished the participants luck and through her words, encouraged hard work and creativity. This year’s event consisted of 7 different categories- Pixelate Junior, Pixelate Senior, Rendered, Surprise, CreADive, Camistic, and Hi-Res.
Pixelate junior- Piexalte junior is an online photography contest that encourages budding photographers. This contest was held for classes IX and X. the participants were expected to be original and give their best while learning more about photography. The entry topic was ‘speed’, Judged by Mr Virendra Adhikari, a Renowned photographer. This category received large participation of students.
Pixelate Senior- This was an online photography contest mainly for classes XI and XII. This year’s topic was ‘Distortion’.
This category provides a platform for students to showcase their creativity and skills through their submissions. This category was judged by Mr Vineet Vohra, one of India’s top photographers. Mr Vohra is a role model and inspiration for all participants.
Rendered- Rendered is a photo-manipulation category where students make creative art from scratch on a given topic. Rendered is a new addition to the Digex event. The topic was ‘Past//Future’. The competitors had to incorporate elements from the future and the past into their entry.
This category was judged by Divyaanshi Chauhan, a former member of the club.
SURPRISE- The surprise category of the event is perhaps the most captivating of them all. Participants do not know what their entry will be, until the time for submission begins. The possibilities can range from components of filmmaking to photography, and more!
This year, students had to submit their entries on ‘Light Painting’. t is a type of photography. This category was judged by Veronica Mathur, former president of the Digex Society.
CreADive- CreADive is the On-spot online Advertisement making competition. Students from classes IX-XII can take part to create an endearing visual sequence of 30-40 seconds.
The contest was judged by Vaidurya Nath, the club’s alumni. Students had to create an advertisement on the topic ‘sugar’.
Camistic- Camistic was the biggest category this year. It is an online ‘story-board event with over 200 students taking part in it. Camistic is an extremely interesting category. Here participants have to click around 3-4 pictures in a specific sequence so that they depict a story. Judged by Rahul Bouri, a former member, the topic was ‘rewind’.
Hi-RES- Hi-RES is the online short-film-making contest where participants have to create a cinematic masterpiece. They have to formulate a team of 4 students to make in 4-6 minutes film. It is the only category that was not held on the spot. The films were judged by Abhijay Bhandari, an alumnus of the club. All entries were on the topic ‘Reversed Roles’.
Preceding the announcement of the results, Ms Padma Shrinivasan, The Principal shared her words with the audience.
The Valedictory then had two astounding performances from the institution’s Expressions Theatre Club in collaboration with members of the Digex Society and the Western Dance Society.
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The results of the event are as follows-
Category | School | Participant (s) | Position |
Pixelate Senior | Sadhu Vaswani International School for Girls | Nancy Rao | First Position |
Heritage Xperiential Learning School | Ashir Singh | Second Position | |
ST MARTIN DIOCESEAN SCHOOL | Rabnoor Kapoor | Third Position | |
Pixelate Junior | Springdales School Pusa Road | Tanisha Singh | First Position |
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram | Samriddhi Gupta | Second Position | |
Banyan Tree School Lodhi Road | Arohi Sharma | Third Position | |
Hi-RES | Modern School Barakhamba Road | Ayaan Mehra Hemanya Suri Shruti Singh Ishaan Singh | First Position |
Amity International School Saket | Kaveri Arun Sarguni Kaur Khurana Fida Chowdhury Niharika Gopishankar | Second Position | |
BYB VIDYASHRAM K.M MUNSHI MARG, JAIPUR | Janvi Bhatia Riyanshi Natani Vanishka Agarwal Kanishk Pradhan | Third Position | |
Camistic | GD GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL, VASANT KUNJ | Aishi Aggarwal Parakh Arora Samia Singh Simran Kaur | First Position |
Springdales School, Pusa Road | Sonakshi Jain Shrihan Sethi Surabhi Duggal Ishika Trehan | Second Position | |
Delhi Public School Nerul | Swara Ashok Tanmoy Chakravorty Gauri Patil Soham Halde | Third Position | |
CreADive | Montfort School | Yashvi Sachdeva Harjas Kaur | First Position |
Summer Fields School | Arul Sharma Deeksha Saini | Second Position | |
Apeejay School | Hardik Pavitr Aggarwal | Third Position | |
Rendered | Jayshree Periwal International School | Priyanshi Garg | First Position |
Air Force Bal Bharti School | Shreyansh Jain | Second Position | |
Modern School Barakhamba | Raghav Jindal | Third Position | |
Surprise | The Indian School | Ekveer Sahoo | First Position |
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj | Rijul Tandon Sanya Sharma | Second Position | |
Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur | Shivansh Goyal Divya Agrawal | Third Position |
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